The Amazing Acro-Cats arrived at Regent Theatre on Thursday, 1 August 2024.

The Rock Cats closed out a purrr-fect purrr-formance. Get it?! See what I did there?!

The Jamaica Plain Music Festival is coming!

Also known as the JP Music Fest. That’s got more zing.

This year’s edition is coming your way September 7, and each edition is organized with tender love and care by a neighborhood community that loves live music and knows how to have a good time. This is a bottom-up affair, by and for the people, and it needs your support.

If you missed the annual Smell The Love fundraiser, you can still donate below!

If you missed the fundraiser show in March at the American Legion Hall with Rick Berlin, Colonel Broccoli and the Legion Basement Band, and Fantastic Trees, you can still donate below!

If you missed the annual classic fundraiser John Casey’s JP Bar Wars at Midway Cafe, you can still donate below!

Do your part to keep Jamaica Plain fresh AND funky.

There’s more than one way to showcase a cat. The Amazing Acro-Cats rolled into Arlington’s Showplace of Entertainment with at least a baker’s dozen of famous felines. Some so famous they have their own Instagram accounts!

The popular and long-running show features an alternating merry-go-round of animal stunts and origin stories for the cats, each of which was a rescue. We learned about Tuna (two of them, Ahi and Albacore), Annie, Bowie, Miki, Nola, Buggles, and crowd favorite Jax, who does nothing except perch centerstage on an oversized plastic novelty skull.

All that plus one chicken, Cluck Norris, who contributed to the grand finale performance by The Rock Cats. The animal band is a four- or five-piece ensemble (depending on which animals are cooperating), featuring drums, guitar, keys, and sundry other percussive equipment.

Do the cats and Cluck play their instruments well? Hellz no!

But credit the main players for at least activating the instruments themselves with the stroke of a paw or peck of the beak. The auxiliary musical cats positioned in front of the horn section were merely going through the motions as horn samples sounded off. In other words, the horn section was lip synching like they were a cat chorus of Ashley Simpsons.

Young and old, short and tall, sweet and sour, everyone got a kick out of the cats. But the night wasn’t all about laughs. Part of the Acro-Cats mission is to help support adoptions of rescue animals through their sister organization Rock Cats Rescue. Looking to provide an adorable feline a new home? Find out more at the Rock Cats Rescue website. And don’t miss the Amazing Acro-Cats on tour, currently working their way along the East Coast.

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